BRITISH SLANGS FOR IELTS (Part 21)

• ˜Jolly - You hear people use this in all sorts of ways, but basically it means very. So "jolly good" would mean very good. A common exception is where you hear people say "I should jolly well think so!" which is more to emphasise the point

• Keep your pecker up - This is one way of saying keep your chin up. Use with caution as in some places your pecker is also your willy!

• Kip - A short sleep, forty winks, or a snooze. You have a kip in front of the telly on a Sunday afternoon.

• Knackered - The morning after twenty pints and the curry, you'd probably feel knackered. Another way to describe it is to say you feel shagged. Basically worn out, good for nothing, tired out, knackered.
• Knob - Yet another word for your willy

• Knock off - To knock something off is to steal it, not to copy it!

• Knock up - This means to wake someone up. Although it seems to have an altogether different meaning in the USA! At one time, in England, a chap was employed to go round the streets to wake the workers up in time to get to work. He knew where everyone lived and tapped on the bedroom windows with a long stick, and was known as a "knocker up". He also turned off the gas street lights on his rounds. Another meaning of this phrase, that is more common these days, is to make something out of odds and ends. For example my Dad knocked up a tree house for us from some planks of wood he had in the garage, or you might knock up a meal from whatever you have hanging around in the fridge.